copy to NT via smbfs problems

[zdrysdal]

Hiya

i am trying to copy lots of image files from my Debian box to a shared ntfs
drive on my NT box.  look at what happens :

lelouvre /home/cdcut/CDWed# cp -af 00 /win2k/images
cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652592a.tif: Operation not permitted
cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652593a.tif: Operation not permitted
cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652591a.tif: Operation not permitted
cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652594a.tif: Operation not permitted

As you can see... i get this error message "Operation not permitted" which
i don't understand... the files do seem to
be successfuly copying regardless of the error message.

permissions on /win2k/images is :  drwxr-xr-x   1 root root
512 Jul 18  2000 /win2k/images

Total files to copy is about 350M but when it gets to about 150-190M it
suddenly stops copying files..."df -h" hangs too as it will
not bring up the ntfs share /win2k.  It is as if the mounted drive has
fallen off.  There is nothing in the event log of the NT box either.

Anyone know what is going on?

thanx

Zane

Re: tekram dc-390u2w

[ferret]

No idea if their driver has anything over the stock kernel driver. Only
thing I notice with my u2w was the lack of activity light after kernel
boot. Of course my new case doesn't even have a second HDD light. :/

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, tjm wrote:

> Hi.  I'm about to install a tekram dc390u2w scsi
> adapter and attach a seagate drive and was wondering
> if anyone is aware of whether there is any advantage 
> to using either of the sym53c8xx or the drivers from 
> the Tekram site (dc390x-ncr).
> 

RE: Some basic unix commanding, more please:

[virtanen]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:


> Sarcasm?  Hardly.  I came to perl via Sanskrit.  The way perl compresses
> such a lot of information makes a lot of sense to someone who has studied,
> say, the Vyakarana sutras.
> 
> -- 
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Interesting. 
I've studied Naagaarjuna some years. 
Are you a member of Buddha-l?

I've been there years, but been out for some time, because being abroad
for a while. 

hvirtane

Re: how to enable multi line ISDN?

[Alexis Maldonado]

Hello.

On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:40:51PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote:
> I've connect with ISDN to the internet. I've 128K capable line(s) but I've
> only 64K connection.

In my case, I had to choose an adequate init string for my ISDN modem, and
then dial like this:

ATD557&557

Dial my ISP twice. Most modems have different configurations, so look at
your modem's manual.

Greetings,

Alexis Maldonado
Universidad de Costa Rica

Re: shell script at boottime

[Manoj Victor Mathew]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 10:00:09PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote:
> > It'd be better if you put your script in /etc/init.d/myscript.sh and
> > made a /etc/rcS.d/S60myscript.sh symlink pointing to it.
> 
>   I can't seem to remember the name I saw, but isn't there a tool in
> Debian for managing these symlinks?

Yes, try 'update-rc.d'.

However, I think installing the package 'file-rc', and editing
/etc/runlevel.conf is a better method. YMMV.

-- 
Manoj Victor Mathew  (GPG#: 3D96A9B9)
Cochin, India.

from slink to potato -> 'wd' ethernet card?

[virtanen]

Hi, 

I'm thinking that it might be nice to upgrade for potato now when I've got
slink working more or less well. 

My problem with installing directly potato did not work, because the wd
module needed for my old ethernet card did not work with the kernel. 
It was pointed out by 'Nathan' on this list that the problem is with the
kernel.  

But if I upgrade for potato by changing the apt sources for
'frozen', what would happen to my networking? 
(All the network sevrvices seem to be working with slink, but potato I
didn't manage to install at all, because of that module...)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: unable to unmount

[Michalowski Thierry]

Title: RE: unable to unmount





Hi,
I'm just a bit confused about that stuff, too...
I suppose your nfsd daemon is not considering access to your cdrom device until there is a nfs request to mount it. You could issue an "lsof" command on your nfs daemon before and after a nfs mount request on it, and a while then, to compare.

With the exportfs trick, I only suggest you force the nfs daemon to release any access it _could_ have on the cdrom device.

HTH
Thierry


Hi,


I have just one more question. This problem wouldnt happen if I just
mount the cdrom on the server, use it locally and after sometime
I can unmount it. Then also nfsd should be accessing it as /cdrom
is there in my exports list and preventing me from umounting? 


I am confused... Could you clarify,


Suresh


On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:55:49PM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote:
> Your problem is that you exported the CDROM with nfsd, and thus nfsd is
> still accessing it, even if nobody accesses your machine through nfs.
> Just comment the line which exports your CDROM in /etc/exports, then issue
> "exportfs -ua", then "exportfs -a" .
> This should unexport your CDROM, and allow you to unmount it, locally.
> 
> HTH
> Thierry
> 


Suresh
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RE: tekram dc-390u2w

[Wagener, Michael]

Hi,

the driver supplied by Tekram does not compile with newer kernels.
It seems to be unsupported and discontinued by Tekram. So there's
no real option, is there?

Mike

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 7:07 AM
> To: tjm
> Cc: debian_user_list
> Subject: Re: tekram dc-390u2w
> 
> 
> 
> No idea if their driver has anything over the stock kernel 
> driver. Only
> thing I notice with my u2w was the lack of activity light after kernel
> boot. Of course my new case doesn't even have a second HDD light. :/
> 
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, tjm wrote:
> 
> > Hi.  I'm about to install a tekram dc390u2w scsi
> > adapter and attach a seagate drive and was wondering
> > if anyone is aware of whether there is any advantage 
> > to using either of the sym53c8xx or the drivers from 
> > the Tekram site (dc390x-ncr).
> > 

Re: Attempt to access beyond end of device

[Johann Spies]

> > >I have a small but recuring, and annoying problem. Every now and then,
> > >my little xconsole starts spewing out the messages below, after which X,
> > >and sometimes the whole system, usually crashes. It's somewhat
> > >disconcerting.
> > >
> > >Jul 16 23:00:32 rei kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device

I had similar problems on my ide-hard disk which was solved by
upgrading my kernel. I now use 2.2.14.

Regards.
Johann


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 "But my God shall supply all your need according to his
  riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19

Re: e2fsck+raid+linux 2.2.16 = crash?

[Alberto Rodríguez Ortega]

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I got just - jyst the same problem.

Anyway i'm lost becouse i have several raid-soft working on other systems 
but i havent got to get working a new one with a 2.2.16 kernel.

any help?


At 15.40 14/7/00 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Today...
>
>One of my systems crashed due to SCSI disk errors.
>
>when it came back up it crashed again. so i had to go to the site (2 hour
>drive!@) and took a look at it.
>
>it seems when the system tries to run e2fsck on the raid set the system
>crashes with the message:
>
>Jul 14 13:36:30 galactica kernel: VFS: grow_buffers: size = 16384
>Jul 14 13:36:31 galactica last message repeated 665 times
>Jul 14 13:36:31 galactica kernel: 384
>Jul 14 13:36:31 galactica kernel: VFS: grow_buffers: size = 16384
>Jul 14 13:36:31 galactica last message repeated 814 times
>Jul 14 13:36:31 galactica kernel: 384
>Jul 14 13:36:31 galactica kernel: VFS: grow_buffers: size = 16384
>Jul 14 13:36:31 galactica last message repeated 468 times
>
>it goes on and on and on..(the people on site left it in that state for a
>good hour and a half until i got there)
>
>This did not happen with 2.2.15. This is also the first time i have run
>e2fsck on the raid drive since upgrading to 2.2.16. As a result i have
>been forced to mount the raid array unclean just so i could get the system
>up and running so the rest of the staff at the site could go home(its
>co-located). I didn't think to reboot to 2.2.15 and run e2fsck on it
>before i left i was in a real rush.
>
>System configuration:
>
>Asus P2L97-DS (this board does not have scsi despite the "DS" model code)
>Dual P2-233
>128MB PC100 SDRAM x 3 (384MB total)
>Matrox G100 AGP Video
>Adaptec AHA 2940UW PCI
>3Com 3C905C w/drivers from www.3com.com
>Generic ATAPI 32x CDROM
>Root device: IBM DDRS-34560D 4.3GB
>Raid system: IBM-DNES-30917OW 9.1GB (x2) Software raid mode 1
>Additional Storage: QUANTUM VIKING 4.5WSE 4.5GB (<- the cause of the
>initial crash)
>
>
>Linux Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1r4
>Installed: Mid-march
>Installed with kernel: 2.2.14+ow1 (www.openwall.com/linux)
>Currently running: 2.2.16+ow1
>
>Raid version: 0.36.4
>
>this happened again and again, and i finally traced it down to this by
>disabling automounting of /dev/md0 in /etc/fstab and the system booted
>fine.  ckraid was run multiple times with no crash(it ran everytime the
>system crashed due to other reasons).  Once i tried to run e2fsck on
>/dev/md0 the errors(above) flooded the screen until i ctrl-alt-del.
>
>I'm not a kernel hacker but i was curious if this is a known issue? i do
>read kernel traffic every week but i haven't seen anything specifically
>realted to raid mentioned (that i can remember). I think what i will do is
>download the data off the raid set, and reformat it so it can be
>"clean" again. or reboot to 2.2.15 and run e2fsck on it..
>
>i can try to provide more info if needed, let me know, i just dont want to
>have to drive up there again if i can avoid it:)
>
>help!
>
>nate
>
>:::
>http://www.aphroland.org/
>http://www.linuxpowered.net/
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Re: Domain names in spain

[Alberto Rodríguez Ortega]

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Just use www.nominalia.es/com

For getting a .es u'll need send some information wbout company etc.
It's a bit hard to get a .es

Seeya

At 15.51 15/7/00 +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
>Sorry for the off topic question, but I know there are people here that
>know the answer to my question:
>
>Where can I register domain names in Spain? (top level domain .es if I'm
>right)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ron Rademaker
>
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Re: driver

[Tolga KILICLI]

As I could remember mine is the same as yours... And in my etc/modules, I
added these;

sound 
ad1848
uart401
cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=3

Also these are written in somewhere near kernel source...

tk.

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Hein Barlag wrote:

> I  have a Crystal Soundcard cs 4236 
> but a have no drivers
> please send them to me
>   
> greatings  and thanks.
> 

Re: Some basic unix commanding, more please:

[Matthew Dalton]

(entering this thread rather late... but still responding to the
original message!)

virtanen wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> > Try:
> >
> > $ for file in *.doc; do mswordview $file > ${file%.doc}.html; done

I certainly did...

You've got some good answers already, so I won't give you another.
Instead, in the whole 'teach a man to fish' spirit, I give you:

http://www.oase-shareware.org/shell/links/

Enjoy!

Matthew

anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

[Joseph de los Santos]

I'm going out of my mind

when a user logs in a terminal this is what will happen:
 -automatically starts x-window, all keybindings and or hotkeys will be
disabled, run netscape and it can't be closed without asking for the user's
password. Can a script be used for this? and anyone kind enough to show me?
Also, Maybe this can be done by adding/modifying xmodmap in the user's
.xinitrc? if so, how? any help with be greatly appreciated.

btw, what's the difference between keycodes and keysyms?

Thanks in advance :)

Re: Can't mount cd when using SCSI emulation

[Brian E. Ermovick]

> alias scd0 sr_mod# load sr_mod upon access of scd0
> pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # before sg, load ide-scsi
> pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # before sr_mod, load ide-scsi


not also that when emulating SCSI, instead of hd?, you'll have scd?

so my burner is now scd0, rather than hdc
(although your mileage may vary)

 - TalonIX

Re: PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO THE VP-CUSTOMER SERVICE

[Brian E. Ermovick]

Why are these lists suddenly getting a lot of crap mail?

just curious...

On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 07:33:40PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
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>standards of customer service in the face of rapidly increasing
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>
>
>
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>as well. In fact, our Vice President for Call Center Operations in
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>
>
>
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>English speaking work force in Bangalore, India, FirstRing is able to
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>Here is a recent article from Voice and Data Communications Magazine
>which discusses the growing use of Indian work force to service North
>America.It mentions HealthScribe, the medical transcription company we
>started prior to establishing FirstRing, and discusses the expected
>growth of call centers in India.
>
>
>
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>
>
>
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>Vice President
>FirstRing, Inc.
>Suite 200
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>
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>REMOTE PROCESSING: Enter India
>
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>becomes the hotbed for offshore remote processing.With distance being
>almost dead and geography all set to become a history, India is poised
>to develop into the largest offshore remote processing centre in the
>world. The global trend among companies is towards outsourcing
>non-core areas.This has spawned a whole range of outsourcing of remote
>processing services to India. Services include medical and legal
>transcription, data processing, HR, remote customer interaction (call
>centre), data digitization and GIS, back-office operation, revenue
>accounting, insurance processing, and animation. This has opened a
>huge employment opportunity in India besides the valuable foreign
>exchange that will accrue to the national exchequer.
>
>
>
>Why India?
>
>
>
>The unbundling of the largely labour-intensive activities is driven by
>cost advantages, making India the hottest outsourcing destination
>world-wide. Setting an offshore remote processing centre in India and
>executing the project involve a cost savings of about 40 percent.
>India has the additional advantage of being the second largest
>English-speaking IT manpower in the world.The improved satellite-based
>telecommunication network, which has enabled almost instantaneous
>high-speed transfer of voice and data, has been one of the
>contributory factors. In most of the centres, the operations are being
>run on a round-the-clock basis. The time zone difference is also in
>India's favour. Above all, the removal of trade barriers has added the
>needed impetus to the offshore outsourcing services.
>
>
>
>What Future Holds for India?
>
>
>
>According to a recent Nasscom-McKinsey report, over the next eight
>years, India could corner about 12 percent of the projected $142
>billion global market for IT-enabled services. The study projects that
>India could be making as much as $9 billion from these services by
>2004 and by 2008, it could be earning $17 billion a year. Addressing
>the recently concluded IT Asia conference in Delhi, Prof. Dertouzos of
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology said that the total manpower
>that can deliver quality back-office work or information services in
>India is around 50 million. He has taken into consideration the
>emerging 

Why not diff binaries?

[Pavel M. Penev]

Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent
for binary file?

Regards,
Pavel M. Penev

Installing.

[Martin Svensson]

Hello,

I work with special designed embedded computers that we have on forklifts
for warehouse management. The PC consists of one type II PCMCIA slot, where
we have the harddrive. Usually a SunDisk (flash), or a Calluna disk. And it
also got two type III PCMCIA for network/radio cards.

Now I have a problem. I want to install debian on this computer. I have for
the moment a SunDisk with 175Mb capacity. I've made one 40Mb (MS-DOS)
partition on it, with the debian installation files. But this computer
doesn't have a floppy drive, and we cannot connect one either. There is no
CD-ROM either. I wonder if there is a debian "install package" that I can
run from ms-dos and just install everything without having to put in any
floppies. I only have Windows 9x and NT workstations with PCMCIA slots, no
linux machine. I can also boot from one of the type III PCMCIA slots and
install on the type II slot, and make the linux partitions there. All I need
to know if is there is or will be available a complete install package for
ms-dos. I can install the rest from a network, with a network card running
ne2000 compatible drivers from the type III slot.

I hope you understand what my problems is.

Thankyou in advance
Martin




Martin Svensson
MA-System Control AB
Teknik Avd. / Technical Department

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Re: Installing.

[virtanen]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Martin Svensson wrote:

> Hello,

> All I need
> to know if is there is or will be available a complete install package for
> ms-dos. I can install the rest from a network, with a network card running
> ne2000 compatible drivers from the type III slot.
> 
> I hope you understand what my problems is.

As far as I can understand your problem, the answer is Yes, there is:

You will 

1) read from the debian installation manual
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-install-drive

the section 
5.3.1 Installation from a DOS partition, 

2) copy the mentioned files into that partition and 
3) give from dos a command 'install'
and try your luck.

I've installed this 'slink' running in this machine that way... 

hvirtane

[no subject]

[Ho, Irwin]

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Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

[Andre Berger]

"Joseph de los Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm going out of my mind
> 
> when a user logs in a terminal this is what will happen:
>  -automatically starts x-window, all keybindings and or hotkeys will be
> disabled, run netscape and it can't be closed without asking for the user's
> password. Can a script be used for this? and anyone kind enough to show me?
> Also, Maybe this can be done by adding/modifying xmodmap in the user's
> .xinitrc? if so, how? any help with be greatly appreciated.

Dont' stick to the "Leave on password thing"; make different accounts
for the Kiosk- and normal users.
The people who told you about the loop already gave you the
solution for Kiosk mode users. The warnings about MIME (Java/
JavaScript/ Stylesheets) in Netscape are serious! 

If you want a more complicated and, as the whole thing runs as root,
different approach, see the Kiosk (or was it Kiosk-Mode?)-HOWTO with
detailled instructions. You will get the idea there. Another way: 

- run the loop as user
- set the kiosk user's shell not to a real shell
- don't use a window manager for the kiosk user
- Hotkeys and so on are usually disabled in XF86Config's server flag
section. Don't enable DontZap, you will never be happy
without because Netscape is _far_ from stable.
- use xdm and write the account name and password into its greeting
msg so that any anonymous user can restart Netscape on his/her own
- Write useful key combinations (CTRL ALT BS, ALT F7) onto the
monitor...
- Secure the user Netscape's preferences and bookmarks (root.kiosk
640, YMMV)
- Don't forget to set up a part of the loop that removes all files
that don't belong to Netscape, and Netscape's lock file (see the Kiosk
HOWTO). 
- if you want them to be able to save pages to floppies, use autofs

The whole thing will _definitely_ compromize security.

> btw, what's the difference between keycodes and keysyms?

Can't help you in this respect.

HTH
Andre
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Re: Can't mount cd when using SCSI emulation

[Esko Lehtonen]

"Brian E. Ermovick" wrote:
> 
> 
> > alias scd0 sr_mod# load sr_mod upon access of scd0
> > pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # before sg, load ide-scsi
> > pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # before sr_mod, load ide-scsi
> 
> 
> not also that when emulating SCSI, instead of hd?, you'll have scd?
> 
> so my burner is now scd0, rather than hdc
> (although your mileage may vary)
> 
>  - TalonIX
> 

I have my drive burning and reading well now. I just hadn't configured
modules. Thanks. 
Next time I'll check HOWTOs first;-)



 WYSINWYG - What You See Is Never What You Get

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 esko dot lehtonen (a) pp dot htv dot fi

XTERM settings?

[Urban Gabor]

Hi,

I have hamm on my machine. When starting xterm, I can not 
use backspace to delete a character on the command line. 
The term is set to 'xtern-debian'. What did I miss? I am 
not on the list, send me back to freemail.hu

Gabor

Re: executing a command within mutt

[Thomas Guettler]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 08:36:24PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> When I try to issue an alias (set in ~/.bash_profile) inside mutt, 
> (with '!') it won't recognize the alias.
> 
> On the shell prompt OTOH, this works as always. Is it that alias'd
> commands don't get exported to mutt or what?
> 

Aliases can't, AFAIK, be exported like variables.
You could make a small wrapper-script in ~/bin.
(Check that ~/bin is on your path).

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telnet and ftp in potato

[Triggs; Ian]

Hi, I just installed potato and set up the computer correctly for use on
my LAN, I can ping it, and it can ping out.  The trouble is however, when
I try to telnet into the computer it connects but no login prompt
appears.  The same applies with ftp, it says connected, but again no login
prompt.  When i telnet localhost from itself it functions correctly, but
ftp'ing localhost doesn't work.  My hosts.allow is allowing everyone and
hosts.deny is denying no-one.  Any suggestions?!?


Thanks is advance,

Ian

About Kernel

[Marco Presi]

Hello.
I'm Marco and I would like to join the Debian world :), and in the while 
I'm collecting some informations. 
I have a question (much more a curiosity) about the kernel provided by
Debian.
I know taht many distributions (as RedHat for example) use to patch the
kernel in their distribution, in a way that it could create incopatibilies
with the Official Linux Kernel during a kernel upgrade, i.e, using RH I
cannot upgrade kernel version using the patches I found @ kernel.org
Does Debian make the same? Are the official kernel patches compatibles?

In the (next) future I would like to contibute like a developer...
In view of this, which is the best Debian version to get started? frozen
or woody?

Thanks to all

see you soon
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Marco

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telnet and ftp in potato

[Triggs; Ian]

Hi, I just installed potato and set up the computer correctly for use on
my LAN, I can ping it, and it can ping out.  The trouble is however, when
I try to telnet into the computer it connects but no login prompt
appears.  The same applies with ftp, it says connected, but again no login
prompt.  When i telnet localhost from itself it functions correctly, but
ftp'ing localhost doesn't work.  My hosts.allow is allowing everyone and
hosts.deny is denying no-one.  Any suggestions?!?


Thanks is advance,

Ian

Re: telnet and ftp in potato

[Ron Rademaker]

About telnet: It COULD be a misconfigured firewall (see what ipchains -L
gives you)
About ftp: firewall could also be the problem, but maybe you're not
running a ftpd.

Ron Rademaker

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Triggs; Ian wrote:

> Hi, I just installed potato and set up the computer correctly for use on
> my LAN, I can ping it, and it can ping out.  The trouble is however, when
> I try to telnet into the computer it connects but no login prompt
> appears.  The same applies with ftp, it says connected, but again no login
> prompt.  When i telnet localhost from itself it functions correctly, but
> ftp'ing localhost doesn't work.  My hosts.allow is allowing everyone and
> hosts.deny is denying no-one.  Any suggestions?!?
> 
> 
> Thanks is advance,
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 

Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

[Ron Rademaker]

For the starting of x-windows, I guess you could but startx in .login in
the users home-dir.
The netscape part it quite a bit more difficult ( I guess you can start it
using .Xsession or something, but you'll have to check the docs of that
for more info), the closing part, here the idea I got on that ( I can't
provide it to you because I'm not good at c):

Create a c-program that starts netscape and include signal.h that
intercepts the SIGTERM, when the SIGTERM arrives the user is prompted for
a password (netscape will be closed at that moment), if the
password is correct, the program is terminated and netscape isn't running
anymore, if the password is incorrect, netscape is restarted. 

Perhaps this can be of any help.

Ron Rademaker



On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote:

> I'm going out of my mind
> 
> when a user logs in a terminal this is what will happen:
>  -automatically starts x-window, all keybindings and or hotkeys will be
> disabled, run netscape and it can't be closed without asking for the user's
> password. Can a script be used for this? and anyone kind enough to show me?
> Also, Maybe this can be done by adding/modifying xmodmap in the user's
> .xinitrc? if so, how? any help with be greatly appreciated.
> 
> btw, what's the difference between keycodes and keysyms?
> 
> Thanks in advance :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: telnet and ftp in potato

[Triggs; Ian]

This could be it, as I have a cable modem connected straight into my hub,
and another computer on the network being the firewall, however it only
has one card so it is using the one ethernet card for both the cable modem
and the LAN.

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:

> About telnet: It COULD be a misconfigured firewall (see what ipchains -L
> gives you)
> About ftp: firewall could also be the problem, but maybe you're not
> running a ftpd.

apt-get problem

[Michal F. Hanula]

When I try to run apt-get upgrade, it stops with 

mount: can't find /usr in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Pre-Invoke 'mount -o remount,rw /usr'
E: Sub-process returned an error code

I don't have a separate /usr partition (The machine has a 200MB HDD).
Any sugestions?
aTdHvAaNnKcSe
Miso&Frankie
PeS/1 forgot to say... running Slink on an i386

im doing a research

[LêíGh]

Hi! Im a student here in the Philippines and Im currently doing a research on 
the different Linux distributors including Debian GNU/Linux. And I am hoping 
that you could help me out.

I just want to ask somethings:

1. Since Debian is a non-profit organization, does that mean that you don't 
have any stocks information?

2. You said that Debian is free for all the people, therefore does that mean 
you have no prices for Debian softwares?

3. Who are your partners?

4. Who are your major clients?

5. Who are the supporters of your major products?

Thank you very much for taking time in reading and answering my email... I 
really appreciate this... Hope you could send this back as soon as possible 
because my research paper will soon be due... thanks again!! =) 

Netscape & plugins

[FIOL BONNIN Antonio]

I imagine that this question is a FAQ, but I don't know where to find the
answer:

I have Netscape installed, and whenever I try to install a plugin,
netscape stops working (Bus error when trying to start it). The only
solution I have found is removing the plugin.

I have tried with the Java plugin 1.2.2 and with rvplayer. I believe that
I have also tried some other plugin, but same problem.

Any hints? Thank you very much.

-- 
Antonio Fiol

Re: from slink to potato -> 'wd' ethernet card?

[Pann McCuaig]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:19, virtanen wrote:

> I'm thinking that it might be nice to upgrade for potato now when I've got
> slink working more or less well. 
> 
> My problem with installing directly potato did not work, because the wd
> module needed for my old ethernet card did not work with the kernel. 
> It was pointed out by 'Nathan' on this list that the problem is with the
> kernel.  

The problem is not actually with the kernel per se, but with the kernel
compiled for the boot floppy you used. I have potato running on a box
with a wd80x3 NIC, and I installed it from scratch. I had to use the ide
flavor (or was it idepci?) of the boot floppies to do so. You could
search the debian-testing list for my comments on the situation.

> But if I upgrade for potato by changing the apt sources for
> 'frozen', what would happen to my networking? 
> (All the network sevrvices seem to be working with slink, but potato I
> didn't manage to install at all, because of that module...)

Upgrading will not change the kernel so your networking services will
continue to work just fine. When you do get around to upgrading your
kernel (a good idea) either compile your own or select the idepci flavor
of the kernel image.

If you're using lilo to boot, the kernel-image package will arrange for
you to be able to boot from using your new kernel image or your old
kernel image when lilo is run as part of the package install.

Luck,
Pann
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changing imp DB

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes]

Hi,
I've a working setup of imp+mysql and I would like to change it
to imp+postgresql.
What files should I change/run to accomplish this?
I found /usr/share/horde/buildlib.php3 but I don't know which
script should I run to update the whole installation.
Thanks,

[]s
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IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails"
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Re: copy to NT via smbfs problems

[Pavel M. Penev]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hiya
> 
> i am trying to copy lots of image files from my Debian box to a shared ntfs
> drive on my NT box.  look at what happens :
> 
> lelouvre /home/cdcut/CDWed# cp -af 00 /win2k/images
> cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652592a.tif: Operation not permitted
> cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652593a.tif: Operation not permitted
> cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652591a.tif: Operation not permitted
> cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652594a.tif: Operation not permitted
> 
> As you can see... i get this error message "Operation not permitted" which
> i don't understand... the files do seem to
> be successfuly copying regardless of the error message.
> 
> permissions on /win2k/images is :  drwxr-xr-x   1 root root
> 512 Jul 18  2000 /win2k/images

The message "Operation not permitted" is to inform you that the
permissions you have had on your source files could not be duplicated for
your destination files. This often happens for filesystems that does not
support user permissions (like FATxx). However, NTFS DOES SUPPORT
PERMISSIONS. Are using NTFS on your destination partition (see below)?

> 
> Total files to copy is about 350M but when it gets to about 150-190M it
> suddenly stops copying files..."df -h" hangs too as it will
> not bring up the ntfs share /win2k.  It is as if the mounted drive has
> fallen off.  There is nothing in the event log of the NT box either.
> 
> Anyone know what is going on?
> 
> thanx
> 
> Zane
> 

Possible reasons for this are:

1. Your partition has run of space (you shoud see "No space left on
device" error message). In this case df my need some time to calculate the
used space on the device.

2. The NTFS module in kernels <= 2.2.16 and probably newer is somewhat
still EXPERIMENTAL and thereso supports ONLY READ OPERATIONS from a NTFS
partition. In addition it does not handle permissions for now. If you are
really using a NTFS partition you would have a hard problem to solve. You
might consider creating 100-200MB VFAT partition just for transfer
purposes, or try keeping what you want available to the both OSes on in
NTFS partition and accessing from Linux.

Hope this might help you,
Pavel M. Penev

Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

[Pavel M. Penev]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote:

> I'm going out of my mind
> 
> when a user logs in a terminal this is what will happen:
>  -automatically starts x-window, all keybindings and or hotkeys will be
> disabled, run netscape and it can't be closed without asking for the user's
> password. Can a script be used for this? and anyone kind enough to show me?
> Also, Maybe this can be done by adding/modifying xmodmap in the user's
> .xinitrc? if so, how? any help with be greatly appreciated.
> 
> btw, what's the difference between keycodes and keysyms?
> 
> Thanks in advance :)
> 
I gues you already have enough good suggestions on the first two
issues. Now for the password. I think you could create a firewall that
would deny any X11 packets for closing netscape. Then you could add some
tool that would request a password, and if it finds it acceptable it would
change the firewall rules to permit netscape "delete_event". You have a
severe problem. You would need to read tons of documentation (esp. if you
follow my suggestion). I would be curious to know if you succeed to solve
it (and mostly HOW?).

Sorry, I can't offer anything better,
Pavel M. Penev

Re: Installing.

[Pavel M. Penev]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Martin Svensson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I work with special designed embedded computers that we have on forklifts
> for warehouse management. The PC consists of one type II PCMCIA slot, where
> we have the harddrive. Usually a SunDisk (flash), or a Calluna disk. And it
> also got two type III PCMCIA for network/radio cards.
> 
> Now I have a problem. I want to install debian on this computer. I have for
> the moment a SunDisk with 175Mb capacity. I've made one 40Mb (MS-DOS)
> partition on it, with the debian installation files. But this computer
> doesn't have a floppy drive, and we cannot connect one either. There is no
> CD-ROM either. I wonder if there is a debian "install package" that I can
> run from ms-dos and just install everything without having to put in any
> floppies. I only have Windows 9x and NT workstations with PCMCIA slots, no
> linux machine. I can also boot from one of the type III PCMCIA slots and
> install on the type II slot, and make the linux partitions there. All I need
> to know if is there is or will be available a complete install package for
> ms-dos. I can install the rest from a network, with a network card running
> ne2000 compatible drivers from the type III slot.
> 
> I hope you understand what my problems is.
> 
> Thankyou in advance
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Martin Svensson
> MA-System Control AB
> Teknik Avd. / Technical Department
> 
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www: http://www.masystem.se
> phone:  +46-46-325258
> mobile:   +46-709-895258
> 
> 
The answer: yes. In fact you would need to download the disks packages and
the install utilities (found in install/ on the Debian CD). Those would be
enough to start the installation. (I hope these are the "Debian
installation files" you have on your MS-DOS parition). The Debian
installation is capable of installing from HTTP, FTP, NFS, any mountable
drive (disk partition,CD-ROM,etc.). You would need to use an address like
'http://www.xx.debian.org' where "xx" stands for the country
identifier of the mirror site. (You may leave this blank, i. e. use
'http://www.debian.org'). If the site you want to use does not support
HTTP (you can hardly find such, though) you may use "ftp://"; instead
"http://";.

Hope this is enough,
Pavel M. Penev

Re: Why not diff binaries?

[Riku Saikkonen]

"Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent
>for binary file?

There is "cmp", but it reports only the position of the first
differing byte (if any).

As for why not:

 * diff is helped a lot by the fact that the input is line-based text.
   And diff doesn't work very well if the lines are very short or
   there are lots of small changes inside lines.

   I don't know if there are algorithms for detecting differences in
   streams of bytes (instead of lines); probably there are, but I
   don't know if they work as well as the text comparison algorithm in
   diff.

   (There is also wdiff, which works word-wise, and seems to work okay
   for what it's designed: calculating differences between reformatted
   paragraphs of text.)

 * There isn't as much use for binary patches than for textual ones,
   because binary executables are platform-dependent.

It should be possible to dump the binary files in a textual format
with "od" (use one byte or word per line, unless you know the data has
larger structures that you want to compare as a whole) and run diff on
those, but I don't know how well that would work.

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Re: Why not diff binaries?

[Lee Willis]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Riku Saikkonen) writes:

> "Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent
> >for binary file?
> 
> There is "cmp", but it reports only the position of the first
> differing byte (if any).

"cmp -l" will report all the differences I believe ...

Lee
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Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

[Chris Gray]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 01:23:05AM -0700, Joseph de los Santos wrote:
> 
> btw, what's the difference between keycodes and keysyms?

The keycodes map between keys on the keyboard and numbers.  The function 
doesn't change if someone changes their key mapping with something like
xmodmap. 

Keysyms, on the other hand, map between keys (in the user's mind) and
numbers.

For example, on a non-remapped keyboard, the Control keycode is 
0x00E3 and Caps lock is 0x00E5.  Their keysyms are 0xFFE3 and 0xFFE5
respectively.  I like to switch my Control and Caps lock keys using
xmodmap.  The keycode of the key to the left of the 'A' key is still
0x00E5, but its keysym becomes 0xFFE3.  Similarly, the keycode of the
key 2 keys down is still 0x00E3 but its keysym is now 0xFFE5.

Confused yet?

Cheers,
Chris

-- 
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softly in the brimming bowl.

Re: Netscape & plugins

[Chanop Silpa-Anan]

Once upon a time, I heard FIOL BONNIN Antonio say

> 
> I imagine that this question is a FAQ, but I don't know where to find the
> answer:
> 
> I have Netscape installed, and whenever I try to install a plugin,
> netscape stops working (Bus error when trying to start it). The only
> solution I have found is removing the plugin.

If plugin and netscape have a conflict you will get that sort of problem.

> I have tried with the Java plugin 1.2.2 and with rvplayer. I believe that
> I have also tried some other plugin, but same problem.

check the version of your netscape whether it is a lib5 or libc6 one. IIRC
,Java plugin 1.2.2 needs libc6 netsacpe and it was installed and ran
properly on my potato box a while ago.

rvplayer is working fine here. I use current realplayer package from potato.


Chanop
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Re: Netscape & plugins

[Antonio Fiol Bonnín]

How do I check if my Netscape is a libc6 one?

Thanks!

Antonio

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote:

> Once upon a time, I heard FIOL BONNIN Antonio say
> 
> > 
> > I imagine that this question is a FAQ, but I don't know where to find the
> > answer:
> > 
> > I have Netscape installed, and whenever I try to install a plugin,
> > netscape stops working (Bus error when trying to start it). The only
> > solution I have found is removing the plugin.
> 
> If plugin and netscape have a conflict you will get that sort of problem.
> 
> > I have tried with the Java plugin 1.2.2 and with rvplayer. I believe that
> > I have also tried some other plugin, but same problem.
> 
> check the version of your netscape whether it is a lib5 or libc6 one. IIRC
> ,Java plugin 1.2.2 needs libc6 netsacpe and it was installed and ran
> properly on my potato box a while ago.
> 
> rvplayer is working fine here. I use current realplayer package from potato.
> 
> 
> Chanop
> -- 
> ,.
> | Just Debian ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|
> `'
> 

Re: Netscape & plugins

[Chanop Silpa-Anan]

Once upon a time, I heard Antonio Fiol Bonnํn say

> How do I check if my Netscape is a libc6 one?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-cache search communicator-smotif
communicator-smotif-473-libc5 - Netscape Communicator 4.73 (static Motif)
(libc5 version)
communicator-smotif-408 - Netscape Communicator 4.08 (static Motif)
communicator-smotif-472 - Netscape Communicator 4.72 (static Motif)
communicator-smotif-473 - Netscape Communicator 4.73 (static Motif)
communicator-smotif-47 - Netscape Communicator 4.7 (static Motif)
communicator-smotif-472-libc5 - Netscape Communicator 4.72 (static Motif)
(libc5 version)

IIRC netscape/communicator packages ~ 4.5 - 4.7 are libc5. And since package
version 4.72, there are both libc5 and libc6.

check your installed version.


Chanop
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Re: display export??

[Richard E. Hawkins]

> Simply execute 'xhost +localhost' before doing a su.

the use of xhost to do this is grequentlyh considered a security risk 
by folks who understand such things (But I'm not one of them, so don't 
ask me to explain why :)

There's (at least) two secure ways to do things.  One is to, as the logged  
in user, type

  xauth list $DISPLAY

and receive something back like

hawkins/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  89978798dea097090890907890


then, in your root window, type 

  xauth add $DISPLAY  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  89978798dea097090890907890 
(use the mouse to cut and paste; you're not likely to type that many 
hex digits correctly)

another way is to use ssh, which tunnels X.  I have the alias

alias rw  "nice xterm -bg pink -fg black -geom 80x25-5+200 -T [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
-e "ssh localhost -lroot " & 

to launch the terminal, label it, paint it pink as a warning, and begin 
the ssh session.

hawk

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Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

[Pavel M. Penev]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:

> For the starting of x-windows, I guess you could but startx in .login in
> the users home-dir.
> The netscape part it quite a bit more difficult ( I guess you can start it
> using .Xsession or something, but you'll have to check the docs of that
> for more info), the closing part, here the idea I got on that ( I can't
> provide it to you because I'm not good at c):
> 
> Create a c-program that starts netscape and include signal.h that
> intercepts the SIGTERM, when the SIGTERM arrives the user is prompted for
> a password (netscape will be closed at that moment), if the
> password is correct, the program is terminated and netscape isn't running
> anymore, if the password is incorrect, netscape is restarted. 
> 
> Perhaps this can be of any help.
> 
> Ron Rademaker
>

This here is absolutely wrong. The X11 system uses its own signals,
transported via TCP/IP. Clicking File->Quit is just like clicking any
other button. Netscape is responsible for handling the event, and it has
no reason to kill its parent if run by a system()-like function, or run by
exec*() function it will have its own signal-handling table. I have
written two small programmes (one for GTK, and one to call it and trap
signals). I can send them if you wish.

> 
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote:
> 
> > I'm going out of my mind
> > 
> > when a user logs in a terminal this is what will happen:
> >  -automatically starts x-window, all keybindings and or hotkeys will be
> > disabled, run netscape and it can't be closed without asking for the user's
> > password. Can a script be used for this? and anyone kind enough to show me?
> > Also, Maybe this can be done by adding/modifying xmodmap in the user's
> > .xinitrc? if so, how? any help with be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > btw, what's the difference between keycodes and keysyms?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance :)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 

Re: Why not diff binaries?

[Pavel M. Penev]

On 17 Jul 2000, Riku Saikkonen wrote:

> "Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent
> >for binary file?
> 
> There is "cmp", but it reports only the position of the first
> differing byte (if any).
> 
> As for why not:
> 
>  * diff is helped a lot by the fact that the input is line-based text.
>And diff doesn't work very well if the lines are very short or
>there are lots of small changes inside lines.
> 
>I don't know if there are algorithms for detecting differences in
>streams of bytes (instead of lines); probably there are, but I
>don't know if they work as well as the text comparison algorithm in
>diff.
> 
>(There is also wdiff, which works word-wise, and seems to work okay
>for what it's designed: calculating differences between reformatted
>paragraphs of text.)
> 
>  * There isn't as much use for binary patches than for textual ones,
>because binary executables are platform-dependent.
> 
> It should be possible to dump the binary files in a textual format
> with "od" (use one byte or word per line, unless you know the data has
> larger structures that you want to compare as a whole) and run diff on
> those, but I don't know how well that would work.
> 
> -- 
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10X! I think I am going to continue my issues in another mail-list.

Gladly,
Pavel M. Penev

Installing the packages

[Ricardo Gabriel Herdt]

Debianers,

   I installed Debian 2.2 base system and when the computer asked me which
packages I want to install I canceled dselect to do it after. Now I want to
install the packages but don't select one by one, select the tasks and
profiles. How can I do this?
   And I want to install the rest of the system after midnight by the Internet.
Is there any way to program the apt to start installing the programs after
midnight? How?  
  Thanks,
Ricardo Gabriel Herdt 

Help compiling Xlib

[Dinesh Nadarajah]

I am trying to compile a simple X application but I
keep getting the folloeing error:

gcc -g -o testapp test1.c -lX11

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Any suggestions? What are the Xlib libraries called
under Linux.  Thanks.

-D

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Re: Installing the packages

[Ben Collins]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 01:18:38PM -0300, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote:
> Debianers,
> 
>I installed Debian 2.2 base system and when the computer asked me which
> packages I want to install I canceled dselect to do it after. Now I want to
> install the packages but don't select one by one, select the tasks and
> profiles. How can I do this?
>And I want to install the rest of the system after midnight by the 
> Internet.
> Is there any way to program the apt to start installing the programs after
> midnight? How?  
>   Thanks,
> Ricardo Gabriel Herdt 

tasksel

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Re: im doing a research

[Bolan Meek]

LêíGh wrote:
> 
> Hi! Im a student here in the Philippines and Im currently doing a research
> on the different Linux distributors...

> I just want to ask somethings:

> 1. Since Debian is a non-profit organization, does that mean
> that you don't have any stocks information?

Yep. (no stocks)

> 2. You said that Debian is free for all the people, therefore does that mean
> you have no prices for Debian softwares?

Yep.  Download freely & free.  Burn your own CD.
Buy CDs from those who provide that service.
However you want to do it, but Debian, per se, doesn't sell software.

> 3. Who are your partners?

The members of Debian (a.k.a Developers).  Software in the Public
Interest.
Have you included http://www.debian.org/ in your research?  Have you
seen
the link anchored on "Partners"?  It'll take you to
http://www.debian.org/partners/ .
On that you'll see honorable mentions of donors of equipment and
services.

> 4. Who are your major clients?

Every one of Debian's "clients" are as important as all the rest.  The
bug reports of each one is as respected as the next: judged on content
only.

Since Debian is not giving any special deals to any recipient
of the distribution, nor for that matter, getting any money from any
such recipient as a precondition of receiving software, Debian has
no "clients" in the typical usage.

> 5. Who are the supporters of your major products?

The members of Debian (a.k.a Developers).  See
http://www.debian.org/devel/
The upstream developers (Debian packages the software of others).  For
that, you'll have to see the individual packages.

> Thank you very much for taking time in reading and answering my email... I 
> really
> appreciate this... Hope you could send this back as soon as possible because 
> my
> research paper will soon be due... thanks again!! =)

If you're really researching Debian, you ought to check out the website,
and follow links. You'll get better answers there.  (At the very moment,
it seems to be down, though: very unusual).

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Re: tekram dc-390u2w

[tjm]

Thanks for the reply.  Out of curiosity, what are
you considering as "newer" kernels.  I was able to
compile the tekram dc390x_ncr driver for the 
dc390u2w both in a 2.2.16 kernel and as a module
in that kernel with no errors, but I haven't tried 
to run them yet.  This still leaves the original 
problem of which one is better, the sym/ncr driver 
or the tekram.


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"Wagener, Michael" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the driver supplied by Tekram does not compile with newer kernels.
> It seems to be unsupported and discontinued by Tekram. So there's
> no real option, is there?
> 
> Mike
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 7:07 AM

BIOS and hardware configuration for GA-5AX Gigabyte mainboard

[Conrado Badenas]

Hi, all!

Is anyone out there who owns a GA-5AX (rev 5.x) gigabyte mainboard? I
would like to know the best BIOS and hardware configuration for my
system. Now I cannot compile linux kernel because of signal 11 raises
(Segmentation fault). I've read the Signal 11 FAQ
(http://www.BitWizard.nl/sig11/) and I need some help.

The system characteristics follow:

CPU: AMD-K6-2/450 (2.4 V) (dmesg says "AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping
0c")
SPEED: 100MHz (external) x4.5=450MHz (internal)
DRAM: 1 DIMM of 128Mb (10 ns, I think) (How can I know it?)
CACHE: How can I know it? (dmesg says "L1 I Cache: 32K  L1 D Cache:
32K")
I/O BUS SLOTS:
   video: PCI card: CL543xPCI SMT, chip: CL-GD5440-J-QC-B
   sound: ISA card: SB16, sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mrq_io=0x330
  opl3 io=0x388
  +CD-ROM sbpcd sbpcd=0x230,1
   net:   ISA card: Ethernic 2000 (ne2000), ne io=0x300 irq=10
IDE PORTS:
   hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL1280A, ATA DISK drive
   hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, ATA DISK drive
   hdc: YAMAHA CRW8424E, ATAPI CDROM drive
   ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
   ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
I/O PORTS:
   mouse: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
   keyboard: PS/2
BIOS: AWARD (c) 1998 PCI/PNP 586 214082403

Kernel compilation is not the only sympthom: sometimes the X11 server
caughts signal 11 and exists, which is VERY annoying (good spelling?).

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Firewalling a single machine

[bsamuels]

** Reply to note from Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 16 Jul 2000 
11:14:30 -0500 (CDT)
   
> PMFirewall is a set of perl scripts that will give you a good beginning on
> what is generally believed to be a secure firewall.  It should do what you
> want.
>   
> The homepage is http://www.pointman.org/

Now that was an exellent piece of advice!  Many thanks for that.  It really is 
my
sort of thing.

My firewall is now in place and seems to be working although I have yet to check
to make sure it doesn't interfere with my internal network.

Many thanks once again for an easy way out.

Barry Samuels
 

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

[David Wright]

Quoting Jonathan Heaney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> David Wright wrote:
> > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle
> > both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels with kerneld or kmod. You will see they do
> > this by testing for the presence of /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe which
> > only exists under 2.2.
> > 
> > Perhaps you have a problem with your /proc filesystem (unless a bug
> > has been introduced into these scripts). There should be no need to
> > move/remove the scripts in /etc/init.d.
> 
> Well if there is such a bug it's been there since potato day1 and still
> is.

Then I presume no bug has been introduced.

> Incidentally, does the presence of /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe not
> depend on what you compile in the kernel???

Well, yes. /proc filesystem support has to be built in. Are you
saying that you don't do that?

> I always roll my own and
> any time I've installed potato with a 2.2 kernel I've had to shift
> kerneld.

I don't know why your kerneld gets started. Surely you can put the odd
echo command into the scripts if you want to find out why. Those of us
running systems where it works can't really help you as we are unable
to replicate the problem.

> Maybe if you stick with Debians own kernels it might be there
> but not everyone does.

I gather that there are plenty of people on this list who do not
use Debian kernels, but pick up tarballs elsewhere.

> And what about 2.4test kernels (that I'm running) ?  I don't have a
> /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe - what should I do?  How do the magic
> scripts in /etc/init.d deal with that

Well this may well be a completely different problem.

What happened with slink (released with 2.0 kernels) and 2.2 kernels
is that some kind soul made special versions of the affected packages
(like netbase) which had the updated package contents compiled against
slink's C library. I have no idea if that sort of thing is necessary
here because I don't know how woody will differ fundamentally from
potato. You may just eventually get an updated modutils package, but
I have no idea if anyone is working on it yet (assuming that is the
problem).

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Re: Help compiling Xlib

[Pavel M. Penev]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:

> I am trying to compile a simple X application but I
> keep getting the folloeing error:
> 
> gcc -g -o testapp test1.c -lX11
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Any suggestions? What are the Xlib libraries called
> under Linux.  Thanks.
> 
> -D
> 

xlib6g installs its libraries under /usr/X11R6/lib/ (try dpkg --largemem
-L xlib6g) and are trying to have names compatible with all other
distributions. I think the problem is that xlib6g does not make
/usr/lib/X11 to be a symlink to /usr/lib/X11R6 where ld likes to look for
the libraries. Either make the symlink, or give ld (gcc will pass
appropriate arguments to ld) a "-L/usr/X11R6/lib" switch.

This is for now,
Pavel M. Penev

Re: BIOS and hardware configuration for GA-5AX Gigabyte mainboard

[Ashley Clark]

* Conrado Badenas in "BIOS and hardware configuration for GA-5AX
* Gigabyte mainboard" dated 2000/07/17 19:02 wrote:

> Hi, all!
> 
> Is anyone out there who owns a GA-5AX (rev 5.x) gigabyte mainboard? I
> would like to know the best BIOS and hardware configuration for my
> system. Now I cannot compile linux kernel because of signal 11 raises
> (Segmentation fault). I've read the Signal 11 FAQ
> (http://www.BitWizard.nl/sig11/) and I need some help.

I don't own a GA-5AX but I might be able to help.

> The system characteristics follow:
> 
> CPU: AMD-K6-2/450 (2.4 V) (dmesg says "AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
> stepping 0c")
> SPEED: 100MHz (external) x4.5=450MHz (internal)
> DRAM: 1 DIMM of 128Mb (10 ns, I think) (How can I know it?)

If it is 10ns it will probably not work on a 100MHz bus. I've only seen
one 10ns stick work out of about a dozen, and it only worked for about
a week. You can try one of the memory tester programs in the hwtools
package to see if it is a problem with your memory, errors should start
showing up very quickly.

About identifying it, if you look at the chips usually the last number
will be the speed, eg. WTC626812B-10 is a 10ns chip, I believe my 8ns
chips say something -8. Hopefully yours follows suit.

> Kernel compilation is not the only sympthom: sometimes the X11 server
> caughts signal 11 and exists, which is VERY annoying (good spelling?).

It probably is your memory. The memory is overclocked and will
sometimes (usually?) return bad data, which can be, well, bad.

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AfterStep and using Themes

[Jay Kelly]

Hello All,
I was hoping matbe someone on the list might be able to help me.
I am trying to install a new theme into AfterStep. I have downloaded
the theme and placed it into: ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/themes. I had
to make the directory themes, does it need a specific premission ?
Then I start X and Update startmenu(start->Desktop->Update startmenu).
After doing that I should be able to see Themes under Desktop but I dont.
I have read everything I can at as.themes.org.

Any Ideas guys ?
Thanks Jay
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network/ethernet card configuration problem?

[James Polson]

Hi,

I'm completely new to Linux, so the solution to my problem
may be trivial to all of you experienced Debian Linux users
(so I hope!). 

I'm trying to install Debian Linux (mostly with success), but
I think that I'm having problems connecting with the ethernet
card in my computer.

The symptoms are:

(1) A message during booting that is something like "network is
  unreachable" (I don't know what log file to look for to get the
  exact wording).

(2) When I type "ifconfig -a", I should see listings for two 
  interfaces, "lo" and "eth0", but the second one (the ethernet
  one) is not there.

(3) Not surprisingly, telnet, ftp, etc. can't be used.

(4) In the /var/log/syslog file, there is a message:

  cardmgr[189]: starting, version is 3.0.5
  cardmgr[189]: no sockets found!
  cardmgr[189]: exiting

  I think that this problem reported is related.

Information about my system:

(1) I have a D-Link DE 220 card.

(2) I have the NC2000 driver in /lib/modules/2.0.36/net
  This is the appropriate driver for the card, according
   to the D-Link website.

I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me with
this problem. Until it's fixed, I have to rely on Windows 95
:(  to connect to the internet.

Thanks,

James Polson

telnet vs ssl

[Ethan Pierce]

Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really 
unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a network 
sniffer on my ip to catch the data?

I telnet to my ISP from work, (only telnet available) then run SSH from ISP 
shell to home machineis this just as insecure as a straight connection via 
telnet right to my home machine?

Thanks -Ethan

Re: telnet vs ssl

[Mike Werner]

Ethan Pierce wrote:
> Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really
> unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a network
> sniffer on my ip to catch the data?

Yup.  And there's plenty of different apps out there to do just that.

> I telnet to my ISP from work, (only telnet available) then run SSH from
> ISP shell to home machineis this just as insecure as a straight
> connection via telnet right to my home machine?

Sure is.  The data path from you to your ISP is completely unprotected. 
When you say "only telnet available" I take that means that SSH is not
available at the computer you have access to at work?  If so, then perhaps
you should look into finding an SSH client tat you can out onto the computer
at work if at all possible.
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Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

[Remco Rijnders]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:10:47AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:15:01AM +0200, Remco Rijnders wrote:
> 
> > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_connect() in
> > lib.inc.php on line 90
> 
> Did you install the PostgreSQL package for PHP?  And did you turn it on in
> the php[3].ini?

Yes, it is called php3-pgsql if I am not mistaken. I have also checked
to see that the file pgsql.so is in /usr/lib/php3/apache/ as where it
should belong if I am not mistaken. I turned it on in php3.ini (see my
original post) and have restarted the apache server.

I think I am doing everything by the book and that is why I am getting
a little frustrated by the error that won't go away.

Thank you for your attempt to help though :)

Sincerely,

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Monitoring program

[Brian Schramm]

Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a
disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine?  I control
machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone stuck a disk in a
drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I know if a reboot will
do what I want.

Brian

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How do I get mail archives?

[Pavel M. Penev]

(I know you like to help, so here is something to make you feel good... )
Can you, please, inform me on what is the procedure of getting a mail
archive? What I have found is at "http://www.debian.org/contact"; in
section "Commonly Requested Addresses": 

Mailing List Archives
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(... or at least make you laugh :))

Yours memberly,
Pavel M. Penev

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

[brian moore]

On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:51:06AM +0100, Jonathan Heaney wrote:
> David Wright wrote:
> > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle
> > both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels with kerneld or kmod. You will see they do
> > this by testing for the presence of /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe which
> > only exists under 2.2.

But doesn't -always- exist on 2.2:

[narvi:/etc/init.d] 11:26:37am 136 % ls -l /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
ls: /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe: No such file or directory
[narvi:/etc/init.d] 11:26:39am 137 % uname -a
Linux narvi 2.2.16 #6 Fri Jun 23 13:51:08 PDT 2000 i686 unknown

You need to have 'CONFIG_KMOD' set in your kernel build to have it,
which I don't.

Seems to me that the logic on that is broken.  /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
is not a good way to determine whether kerneld should be run.

Perhaps you should file a bug on it?

> > Perhaps you have a problem with your /proc filesystem (unless a bug
> > has been introduced into these scripts). There should be no need to
> > move/remove the scripts in /etc/init.d.
> 
> Well if there is such a bug it's been there since potato day1 and still
> is.  Incidentally, does the presence of /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe not
> depend on what you compile in the kernel???  I always roll my own and
> any time I've installed potato with a 2.2 kernel I've had to shift
> kerneld.  Maybe if you stick with Debians own kernels it might be there
> but not everyone does.

It does.  See above.

> And what about 2.4test kernels (that I'm running) ?  I don't have a
> /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe - what should I do?  How do the magic
> scripts in /etc/init.d deal with that

They run kerneld.  Wrongly.

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Re: Help compiling Xlib

[Dinesh Nadarajah]

I tried all sorts of combinations but don't seem to be
able to get it going. What is the name of the Xlib
library files? Here are the things I tried. Any other
advice?

Thanks.



gcc test1.c -lX11
test1.c: In function `main':
test1.c:18: warning: return type of `main' is not
`int'
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

gcc test1.c -lxlib6g
test1.c: In function `main':
test1.c:18: warning: return type of `main' is not
`int'
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxlib6g
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

gcc test1.c -l/usr/X11R6/lib
test1.c: In function `main':
test1.c:18: warning: return type of `main' is not
`int'
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/usr/X11R6/lib
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

gcc test1.c -l/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1
test1.c: In function `main':
test1.c:18: warning: return type of `main' is not
`int'
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find
-l/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

gcc test1.c -llibX11  
test1.c: In function `main':
test1.c:18: warning: return type of `main' is not
`int'
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llibX11
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

gcc test1.c -llibX11.so.6.1
test1.c: In function `main':
test1.c:18: warning: return type of `main' is not
`int'
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llibX11.so.6.1
collect2: ld returned 1 exit sta


--- "Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to compile a simple X application but
> I
> > keep getting the folloeing error:
> > 
> > gcc -g -o testapp test1.c -lX11
> > 
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > 
> > Any suggestions? What are the Xlib libraries
> called
> > under Linux.  Thanks.
> > 
> > -D
> > 
> 
> xlib6g installs its libraries under /usr/X11R6/lib/
> (try dpkg --largemem
> -L xlib6g) and are trying to have names compatible
> with all other
> distributions. I think the problem is that xlib6g
> does not make
> /usr/lib/X11 to be a symlink to /usr/lib/X11R6 where
> ld likes to look for
> the libraries. Either make the symlink, or give ld
> (gcc will pass
> appropriate arguments to ld) a "-L/usr/X11R6/lib"
> switch.
> 
> This is for now,
> Pavel M. Penev
> 
> 
> 
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RE: Help compiling Xlib

[Lehel Bernadt]

On 17-Jul-2000 Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> I am trying to compile a simple X application but I
> keep getting the folloeing error:
> 
> gcc -g -o testapp test1.c -lX11
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Any suggestions? What are the Xlib libraries called
> under Linux.  Thanks.
>

You'll need xlib6g-dev.

Re: Monitoring program

[Ron Rademaker]

Why don't you try to mount the floppy or the cd, if it succeeds, there's a
disk / cdrom, if it fails, there not...

Ron Rademaker

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote:

> Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a
> disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine?  I control
> machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone stuck a disk in a
> drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I know if a reboot will
> do what I want.
> 
> Brian
> 
> Brian Schramm
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.linuxexpert.org
> 
>
> 
> 
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Re: Monitoring program

[Brian Schramm]

That only works on normal floppies.  If I have a boot floppy in there that
was created a special way most systems will not mount them directly.  But
they will still boot from them.  


Brian Schramm
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www.linuxexpert.org

   
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:

> Why don't you try to mount the floppy or the cd, if it succeeds, there's a
> disk / cdrom, if it fails, there not...
> 
> Ron Rademaker
> 
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote:
> 
> > Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a
> > disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine?  I control
> > machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone stuck a disk in a
> > drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I know if a reboot will
> > do what I want.
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> > Brian Schramm
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > www.linuxexpert.org
> > 
> >
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Re: network/ethernet card configuration problem?

[Esko Lehtonen]

James Polson wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm completely new to Linux, so the solution to my problem
> may be trivial to all of you experienced Debian Linux users
> (so I hope!).
> 
> I'm trying to install Debian Linux (mostly with success), but
> I think that I'm having problems connecting with the ethernet
> card in my computer.
>
> The symptoms are:
> 
> (1) A message during booting that is something like "network is
>   unreachable" (I don't know what log file to look for to get the
>   exact wording).
> 
> (2) When I type "ifconfig -a", I should see listings for two
>   interfaces, "lo" and "eth0", but the second one (the ethernet
>   one) is not there.
> 
> (3) Not surprisingly, telnet, ftp, etc. can't be used.
> 
> (4) In the /var/log/syslog file, there is a message:
> 
>   cardmgr[189]: starting, version is 3.0.5
>   cardmgr[189]: no sockets found!
>   cardmgr[189]: exiting
> 
>   I think that this problem reported is related.
> 
> Information about my system:
> 
> (1) I have a D-Link DE 220 card.
> 
> (2) I have the NC2000 driver in /lib/modules/2.0.36/net
>   This is the appropriate driver for the card, according
>to the D-Link website.
> 
> I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me with
> this problem. Until it's fixed, I have to rely on Windows 95
> :(  to connect to the internet.
> 

You need to configure eth0 and your cards kernel module (driver). 

>From Ethernet-HOWTO may find correct settings for the module. Then you
have to put these setting to a file to /etc/modutils/ and run
update-modules. 

You need to configure eth0 before. I am not an expert here, but
configuration depends much on what you are trying to do. (For my cable
modem I had to just install a debian package dhcpcd. If you are
connecting to LAN or something, that's different.) Take a good look to
Linux Networking-HOWTO (aka  NET3-HOWTO):
http://www.linux.com/howto/NET3-4-HOWTO.html 

Probably you can find this HOWTO from you Linux machine's /usr/doc/HOWTO
directory too.

NOTE: If you are completely new to Linux you should consider purhasing a
good book, something like "Running Linux" from O'Reilly. Also read
HOWTOs.
 


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Re: How do I get mail archives?

[Bolan Meek]

"Pavel M. Penev" wrote:
> 
> (I know you like to help, so here is something to make you feel good... )

Well, thank you for the opportunity!

> Can you, please, inform me on what is the procedure of getting a mail
> archive? What I have found is at "http://www.debian.org/contact"; in
> section "Commonly Requested Addresses":
> 
> Mailing List Archives
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is this what you need:
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ ?

> (... or at least make you laugh :))

Whew!  Oh, no:  this would heap up bad "karma".

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Re: Monitoring program

[Ron Rademaker]

How about cat /dev/fd0 will that work?

Ron Rademaker

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote:

> That only works on normal floppies.  If I have a boot floppy in there that
> was created a special way most systems will not mount them directly.  But
> they will still boot from them.  
> 
> 
> Brian Schramm
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.linuxexpert.org
> 
>
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> 
> > Why don't you try to mount the floppy or the cd, if it succeeds, there's a
> > disk / cdrom, if it fails, there not...
> > 
> > Ron Rademaker
> > 
> > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a
> > > disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine?  I control
> > > machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone stuck a disk in a
> > > drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I know if a reboot will
> > > do what I want.
> > > 
> > > Brian
> > > 
> > > Brian Schramm
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > www.linuxexpert.org
> > > 
> > >
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Re: Monitoring program

[Bob McGowan]

You could try mounting, if that fails then use dd to try and read the
device.  If it succeeds, then there is a disk there but without a normal
filesystem.  You might then assume it is a special boot image floppy, or
if you know what sort of magic information to look for, you could try
checking for that, too.

Just some thoughts, I've never tried to do anything like this.

Brian Schramm wrote:
> 
> That only works on normal floppies.  If I have a boot floppy in there that
> was created a special way most systems will not mount them directly.  But
> they will still boot from them.
> 
> Brian Schramm
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.linuxexpert.org
> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> 
> > Why don't you try to mount the floppy or the cd, if it succeeds, there's a
> > disk / cdrom, if it fails, there not...
> >
> > Ron Rademaker
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a
> > > disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine?  I control
> > > machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone stuck a disk in a
> > > drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I know if a reboot will
> > > do what I want.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > > Brian Schramm
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > www.linuxexpert.org
> > >
> > >
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Re: network/ethernet card configuration problem?

[Bolan Meek]

James Polson wrote:
> 
> ...problems connecting with the ethernet card in my computer.
> 
> The symptoms are:
> 
> (1) ..."network is unreachable" ...
> 
> (2) ..."ifconfig -a", ..."eth0", ...not there.
> 
> ...
> 
> Information about my system:
> 
> (1) I have a D-Link DE 220 card.
> 
> (2) I have the NC2000 driver in /lib/modules/2.0.36/net
>   This is the appropriate driver for the card, according
>to the D-Link website.
> 
> I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me with
> this problem. Until it's fixed, I have to rely on Windows 95
> :(  to connect to the internet.

Let's see:  does it look like the driver module is being loaded?
Use `dmesg | more` to find out.

If so, are you using a static IP, and have an entry in 
/etc/network/interface, such as
iface eth0 inet static
address LL.MM.NN.OO
netmask 255.255.255.0
network LL.MM.NN.0
broadcast LL.MM.NN.255
gateway LL.MM.NN.PP 
?

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James Polson
> 
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Re: Monitoring program

[Ashley Clark]

* Brian Schramm in "Monitoring program" dated 2000/07/17 14:25 wrote:

> Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there
> is a disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine?  I
> control machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone
> stuck a disk in a drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I
> know if a reboot will do what I want.

Why don't you turn off booting from floppy in the BIOS?

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Remote Apps

[Ethan Pierce]

Id like to be able to run ftp and telnet to my home machine from 
work...normally this works fine.  Today I thought I would just boot up my home 
machine to the login and leave it there to save some processor...theoretically 
this is supposed to work?  I called another friend (this is b4 I left for work) 
and had him log in...this worked.  I left for work and when I arrived couldnt 
log in...hmm

Called my girlfriend and had her log in locally...now I could get in again from 
work...weird

I logged out remote , then came back an hour later...couldnt connect to or ping 
my machine...called her up again and had her startx thinking maybe I needed 
something running full time to have the remote network access.  Now things are 
working remotely without the hitch.

Now, my questions are:
1)Does remote network access depend on users logged in locally?

2) If a user is logged in locally and times out so to speak from not doing 
anything will this cut off remote access?

Thanks guys -Ethan

Logging printer usage

[Cory Rudder]

Hello, Has anyone had to log printer usage? I am trying to locate a package
that would be capable of such. All it needs to do is  simply pass PS traffic
from one nic to another, after asking the user to enter a job number or
such. I have considered using a proxy package for this, but it seems to be
overkill for such a simple task. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks 
Cory

Re: Why not diff binaries?

[Chris Majewski]

Hm? I use diff on binaries all the time.. -chris


On 17 Jul 2000, Lee Willis wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Riku Saikkonen) writes:
> 
> > "Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent
> > >for binary file?
> > 
> > There is "cmp", but it reports only the position of the first
> > differing byte (if any).
> 
> "cmp -l" will report all the differences I believe ...
> 
> Lee
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Re: Remote Apps

[Chris Majewski]

Definitely shouldn't work this way. Look in /etc{rcS.d, rc1.d, rc2.d, rc3.d}
and so on to see if they have a symbolic link to /etc/inetd (I think this
is the one you want) called Sinetd, where , are digits.
Then look in /etc/inittab to find out what runlevel you're at 
before anyone logs in. (Runlevel k runs scripts in rck.d). See also 
/etc/rcS.d/README. Seems to me you're at the wrong runlevel and your
telnet daemon isn't being started. Maybe someone else can give more details,
ask you about what error messages you get, and admonish you about ssh vs.
telnet. For the time being the serial-line-girlfriend-protocol seems pretty
effective though!
chris


On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ethan Pierce wrote:

> Id like to be able to run ftp and telnet to my home machine from 
> work...normally this works fine.  Today I thought I would just boot up my 
> home machine to the login and leave it there to save some 
> processor...theoretically this is supposed to work?  I called another friend 
> (this is b4 I left for work) and had him log in...this worked.  I left for 
> work and when I arrived couldnt log in...hmm
> 
> Called my girlfriend and had her log in locally...now I could get in again 
> from work...weird
> 
> I logged out remote , then came back an hour later...couldnt connect to or 
> ping my machine...called her up again and had her startx thinking maybe I 
> needed something running full time to have the remote network access.  Now 
> things are working remotely without the hitch.
> 
> Now, my questions are:
> 1)Does remote network access depend on users logged in locally?
> 
> 2) If a user is logged in locally and times out so to speak from not doing 
> anything will this cut off remote access?
> 
> Thanks guys -Ethan
> 
> 
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Sending hard reset signals to hardware under Linux (fwd)

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser]

Hi folks.

The forwarded question below is from my friend. I don't know the
answer. Can anyone help me out? He's running slink.

Thanks. Syrus.

-- Forwarded message --
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:21:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rex Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sending hard reset signals to hardware under Linux

Syrus,

Unfortunately, my CDR occasionally crashes when reading burned CD-ROMs
from another CDR.  This is highly annoying as it requires me to power down
the computer.  Any processes performing reads during the crash become
unkillable even with -9.  Is there a way to send a hardware reset (or
simply to kill power) to the drive from within Linux?  Thanks.

  --Rex

Re: What is SIOCSIFFLAGS, and when will he be back?

[Raymond L. Zarling]

Yes, I have booted linux both from a cold start and after running windows,
with no difference.  But I guess that indicates some kind of Plug and Play
problem.  I don't think that's what's going on in my case, since the dmesg
output (recorded below) says to me that the kernal is talking to the card
just fine.

Does anyone, please, know how I could research this problem farther?  Prove,
for instance, whether it is or is not a Plug and Play problem?

--Ray

On 16-Jul-00, you wrote:

> I have a Linksys LNE100TX, also tulip driver, and get the same error if
> I reboot from Windows into Linux. Problem is fixed if I start Linux from
> a cold boot as opposed to restarting from windows. Have you tried this?
> 
> - Colin McMillen
> 
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 03:36:24PM -0700, Raymond L. Zarling wrote:
>> Linux has stopped talking to my ethernet card (Kingston KNE100TX, tulip
>> driver).  The probem seems to be in ifconfig, which reports:
>> 
>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
>> 
>> I run a dual boot system, and it works fine from Windoze 98.  It used to
>> run, some weeks ago, in Linux too, but I neglected Linux for a few weeks,
>> and when I tried it now again--this!  I honestly don't remember changing
>> anything in the interim; I certainly haven't opened the computer case. 
>> Since I don't know what SIOCSIFFLAGS are, I'm completely stumped about
>> where to look next.  Short of clearing the disk and reinstalling
>> everything, but that's one of the things I was hoping Linux would save me
>> from.
>> 
>> As shown below, the tulip driver doesn't seem to be complaining, and
>> ifconfig has all the right IP addresses and routes.
>> 
>> Any ideas what's going on here?  Thanks!
>> 
>> --Ray
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 
>> 
>> ** dmesg **
>> Linux version 2.2.12 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Thu Aug 26
>> 11:46:26 PDT 1999
>> ...
>> tulip.c:v0.91g 7/16/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at 0x6100, 00:C0:F0:3B:F7:91, IRQ 0.
>> eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
>> eth0:  Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block.
>> eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
>> 
>> ** ifconfig -a **
>> eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:C0:F0:3B:F7:91  
>>  inet addr:192.168.1.13  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>  BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>  collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
>>  Base address:0x6100 
>> 
>> loLink encap:Local Loopback  
>>  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>>  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
>>  RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>  TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>> 
>> ** lsmod **
>> Module  Size  Used by
>> nls_cp437   3548   1  (autoclean)
>> tulip  29060   0  (unused)
>> serial 18412   1 
>> parport 6600   0  (unused)
>> vfat8972   1 
>> umsdos 22768   0  (unused)
>> 
>> 
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Re: dhcp network

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

If your DSL router is in fact a DHCP server you can just install the
pump package and run it on eth0. If your router isn't a DHCP server (or
doesn't proxy DHCP) then I couldn't begin to guess how you'd get the IP
address.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I am trying to hook up my new Linux box, running Storm2000 to my
> existing network. There already is a router (Linksys BEFSR41) used to
> connect my DSL modem to the network and act as a fire wall. Could you
> please tell me how to set the Debian Linux to get the IP address
> dynamically from my router. Thank YouSteve

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Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

[Alberto Brealey]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 08:21:05PM +0200, Remco Rijnders wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:10:47AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:15:01AM +0200, Remco Rijnders wrote:
> > 
> > > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_connect() in
> > > lib.inc.php on line 90
> > 
> > Did you install the PostgreSQL package for PHP?  And did you turn it on in
> > the php[3].ini?
> 
> Yes, it is called php3-pgsql if I am not mistaken. I have also checked
> to see that the file pgsql.so is in /usr/lib/php3/apache/ as where it
> should belong if I am not mistaken. I turned it on in php3.ini (see my
> original post) and have restarted the apache server.

did you try

dl("pgsql.so");

before using any pgsql functions? (you have to do this 'cuz pgsql is loaded
as a module, not compiled into php interpreter).

hope that helps,

Alberto Brealey
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Cloning an installation

[Pascal Martin]

I have the following problem: I have one fully 
installed computer,
and I want to install a second one the exact same 
way.
 
I would like to avoid selecting all the packages 
manually.
 
Is any automated way exists ? Something like 
listing all packages
from the existing system and generating an installation script for
the new one out of it ?
 
Pascal.
 

Re: 2gig file

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Brian Schramm wrote:

> OK.  I am dealing with a 2gig file size limit on Linux.  I have been
> reading up on this all day to very little luck as to how to fix it.  If
> I recomend someone to go to debian for an upgrade will this fix it?  I
> am after any fix I can get and at this time changing dist. is just as
> good for me as anything else.
>
> Please someone help me see the lite on this.

This is due to a limitation of the ext2 filesystem. I believe the reiserfs 
filesystem
supports longer files than this but you'd need to patch your kernel source to 
add
this. I also don't know if it's really ready for prime time yet.

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Re: AfterStep and using Themes

[Andrei Ivanov]

1.7-1.8 Afterstep has a builtin theme support.
You can use that engine, or do it by hand, just untar the tarball, and put
files into appropriate directories (manually).
If you will use the theme engine, go to GNUstep/Library/Afterstep/themes
directory, and put your tarball there. Next update all, and under
Desktop->Themes you will see that tarball. (if update all fails, just
restart the AS session). Click on it and it should install fine.
Andrei


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Ford Exterminator.
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Re: Cloning an installation

[Pascal Martin]

Considering the answers I got, I feel my question 
was not adequat.
 
I want to clone the same list of installed 
software, but the base installation may differ
slightly because the 
two computers do not have the same hardware: different disk
capacity and video card. They also will have 
different IP addresses..
 
What I would like is an editable installation 
script, which I can tailor somewhat (for
example by removing 
the X Window installation that is likely to be different anyway).
Modifying an 
existing installation list is a lot less 
complicated than reselecting all
the packages manually, of which which 90% is pure application 
stuff.
 
The solution I am looking for would be to 
perform the base installation manually
(including X) and go 
on with the remaining packages (not in the base) in an
automatic (or semi-automatic) way.
 
Pascal.

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Pascal 
  Martin 
  To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
  Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 2:54 PM
  Subject: Cloning an installation
  
  I have the following problem: I have one fully 
  installed computer,
  and I want to install a second one the exact same 
  way.
   
  I would like to avoid selecting all the packages 
  manually.
   
  Is any automated way exists ? Something like 
  listing all packages
  from the existing system and generating an installation script for
  the new one out of it ?
   
  Pascal.
   

Re: esd says "unable to bind port 16001"

[Louis F. Melahn]

I have solved the problem; I forgot to set up the "dummy" network
module.

L.M.

Timothy Ritchey wrote:
> 
> > > >   Unable to bind port 16001
> > > >
> > > > and then it aborts. What does that mean, and how do I
> > > >
> > I thought of that, but esd is definitely not running on
> > my system when this error occurs.
> 
> I think this means that there is a problem with the
> gnome-sessions and/or ORBit. I believe you get this
> when ORBit is not running. I had a messed up installation
> with a mix of devel and released GNOME packages, and got
> this exact same error. When I went back to the stable
> branch on everything it worked fine. Might me somewhere
> to look.
> 
> tim
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strange log messages

[Ashley Clark]

When I'm running vmware I get these strange log messages, should I
worry about them, are they deadly? My machine has 160 meg and vmware is
setup to allocate 64M for vmware clients.

Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
squid...
Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
vmware...
Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
rpc.nfsd...   
Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
apache...
Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
vmware...

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Re: 2gig file

[Gary Hennigan]

"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brian Schramm wrote:
> 
> > OK.  I am dealing with a 2gig file size limit on Linux.  I have been
> > reading up on this all day to very little luck as to how to fix it.  If
> > I recomend someone to go to debian for an upgrade will this fix it?  I
> > am after any fix I can get and at this time changing dist. is just as
> > good for me as anything else.
> >
> > Please someone help me see the lite on this.
> 
> This is due to a limitation of the ext2 filesystem. I believe the
> reiserfs filesystem supports longer files than this but you'd need
> to patch your kernel source to add this. I also don't know if it's
> really ready for prime time yet.

Actually, I think there are a whole LOT of issues with file 
sizes > 2GB on ext2 and 32-bit machines. Best place to look for an
explanation would be a searchable archive of the Linux kernel mailing
list, like:

http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html

and do a search with the keywords along the lines of:

2G file size limit

Unfortunately I don't think there is currently a "stable" solution to
this problem. ext3 and reiserfs exist, and may solve the problem, but
I think they're still pretty much considered beta, at best. I'm not
even sure you can use them with a 2.2.x kernel, you may have to use a
"development" kernel, ie., 2.3.x series kernel. Also, of course, you
could solve the problem by going with a DEC/Compaq Alpha or Sparc
64-bit machine running Linux.

Gary

Re: telnet vs ssl

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really
> unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a
> network sniffer on my ip to catch the data?

Yep.  Telnet was written back when worrying about people sniffing
connections was a non-issue.

> I telnet to my ISP from work, (only telnet available) then run SSH
> from ISP shell to home machineis this just as insecure as a
> straight connection via telnet right to my home machine?

Yep: just as insecure - you don't know who between you and your ISP may be
running a packet sniffer.  Your only solution (that I know of) is to get
your sysadmin at work to unlock port 22 (the port used by ssh) at the
firewall (if it's a firewall that's blocking ssh).

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Re: 2gig file

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Actually, I think there are a whole LOT of issues with file 
> sizes > 2GB on ext2 and 32-bit machines. Best place to look for an
> explanation would be a searchable archive of the Linux kernel mailing
> list, like:
> 
> http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
> 
> and do a search with the keywords along the lines of:
> 
> 2G file size limit
> 
> Unfortunately I don't think there is currently a "stable" solution to
> this problem. ext3 and reiserfs exist, and may solve the problem, but
> I think they're still pretty much considered beta, at best.

ext3 is late alpha/early beta
reiserfs is very late beta/production quality

The file size limit has less to do with the file system (hence why an
alpha or UltraSPARC can have huge files - I've seen up to 16GB) and more
to do with limits in what the file system interfaces with - the VFS.

> I'm not even sure you can use them with a 2.2.x kernel, you may have
> to use a "development" kernel, ie., 2.3.x series kernel.

reiserfs works just fine with 2.3.x/2.4.x.  The 2.3.x/2.4.x series has had
fixed the "can't have >2GG files on ix86" problem fixed for quite some
time now, too.

> Also, of course, you could solve the problem by going with a
> DEC/Compaq Alpha or Sparc 64-bit machine running Linux.

Provided, of course, you can afford one of the things :)

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Re: 2gig file

[brian moore]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:04:53PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Brian Schramm wrote:
> 
> > OK.  I am dealing with a 2gig file size limit on Linux.  I have been
> > reading up on this all day to very little luck as to how to fix it.  If
> > I recomend someone to go to debian for an upgrade will this fix it?  I
> > am after any fix I can get and at this time changing dist. is just as
> > good for me as anything else.
> >
> > Please someone help me see the lite on this.
> 
> This is due to a limitation of the ext2 filesystem.  I believe the
> reiserfs filesystem supports longer files than this but you'd need
> to patch your kernel source to add this.  I also don't know if it's
> really ready for prime time yet.

No, it's not a limit of ext2.

It's a limit of Unix on 32-bit machines.  (How would you pass a 64 bit
offset to lseek() or get back a 64-bit offset without breaking
existing code?)

Fortunately, this has been worked out.  STFW for "Large File Summit" and
read the papers (gack, google is scary).  64-bit-files-on-32-bit-hardware
is coming with the 2.4 kernel.  (This is done with new system calls,
see the LFS papers for more info.)

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Re: Cloning an installation

[Ron Rademaker]

I guess you want to use dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --set-selections

To get the same packages installed on the other do:

dpkg --get-selections < file (on the installed machine)
copy the file from thatmachine to the new one
dpkg --set-selections < file (on the new one)

Ron Rademaker

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Pascal Martin wrote:

> I have the following problem: I have one fully installed computer,
> and I want to install a second one the exact same way.
> 
> I would like to avoid selecting all the packages manually.
> 
> Is any automated way exists ? Something like listing all packages
> from the existing system and generating an installation script for
> the new one out of it ?
> 
> Pascal.
> 
> 

Re: strange log messages

[Moritz Schulte]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:35:28PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:

> Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
> squid...

which kernel? 2.2.16 or early 2.2.17pre's? it's a known bug in
them. upgrading to the last 2.2.17pre should solve the problem.

  moritz
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Re: strange log messages

[Ashley Clark]

* Moritz Schulte in "Re: strange log messages" dated 2000/07/18 01:33
* wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:35:28PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
> 
> > Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
> > squid...
> 
> which kernel? 2.2.16 or early 2.2.17pre's? it's a known bug in them.
> upgrading to the last 2.2.17pre should solve the problem.

2.2.16. But is it a serious problem, or can I just wait until 2.2.17 is
final?

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Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging dlkern

[Chris Fearnley]

The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS)
 (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/)
 
 Presents

  Building Debian Packages by Example:  Packaging dlkern

   When:
  Wednesday 19 July 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
 
   Facilitator:
  Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc.
 
   Where:
  IQ Group's Technology Lab
  The Constitution Building, 12th floor, Suite 1200
  325 Chestnut Street
  Philadelphia, PA
 
   Abstract
 
   We will demonstrate the building of a Debian package by preparing a .deb file
   for dlkern, a package to download the Linux kernel and verify its signature.
   Dlkern is a very simple one file script. Therefore this session will cover 
only
   the very basics of Debian Package building.

   Social Dinner
 
   Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at
   Dock Street Brew Pub at the Terminal (215-922-4292), 1150 Filbert Street,
   Philadelphia, PA. Please RSVP so we can get an appropriate sized table.

   Keysigning Notes

   If you want your key signed by other members and/or Debian developers,
   please follow these instructions carefully.

   To facilitate the keysigning, please send an e-mail to Chris Fearnley
   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the following details about your public
   key:
 * Your real name * Your email address * Your User ID, as it appears
 on their public key. In most (all?)  * cases, this
   should be a mixture of your real name, plus your email address.
 * Your Key ID * Your Key Size (bits) * Your Key Fingerprint *
 The contents of your public key * The type of key (RSA in most cases)

   GPG users should use "gpg --export --armor NAME " to retrieve their
   key and "gpg --fingerprint NAME" to retrieve their fingerprint and
   KeyID. For PGP users, most of this information can be obtained by
   typing "pgp -kvc ".

   Finally, please bring positive picture ID to the meeting as well as a copy of
   all of the information that you send to Chris by e-mail.

   Note: The Keysigning Parties Page has an overview of keysigning 
get-togethers.
   Many Thanks to David Coe for providing this link.

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